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boringg 3 hours ago

Couldn't ask for better unintended outcomes from that Iran war than to fast track deployment of renewable and nuclear energy.

Get europe off their anti-nuclear, pro gas stance. France gains a fair bit from this development. Russia loses influence as does the mid-east if the trajectory holds.

Winners: heat pump manufacturers, nuclear re-processing, uranium enrichment, eVs, nuclear heavy manufacturers, solar panels (China)...

spacebanana7 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Gas is an excellent compliment for renewables. It scales up and down quickly, and can cover all the weak spots around intermittency and dunkelflautes. The carbon emissions are relatively low too, because in renewables/battery heavy grid the actual quantity of gas needed is relatively small.

The problem arises in importing gas from unstable places.

marcosdumay 22 minutes ago | parent [-]

All of that is right... But we needed something to make batteries competitive with gas, because the renewables part is already solved, and we need to move to the next step.